Uzbekistan increased electricity generation by 0.2 percent up to 52.534 billion kilowatt-hours in 2012 compared to 2011, a source in the government circles told Trend today.
The heat energy volume for consumers for 2012 decreased by 0.2 percent - up to 18.876 million Gcal.
It was...
President of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev has signed a decree on "National strategy for sustainable development of Kyrgyz Republic for 2013-2017", KyrTAG reports on Monday.
According to the decree, after extensive public discussion, taking into account the program developments by the...
Water and energy problem in Central Asia should be solved collectively. Head of economics department of the CIS Institute Aza Migranyan expressed such an opinion at a round table discussion on "Energy Security of Kyrgyzstan in the context of integration".
She noted that at present the...
Central Asia and Afghanistan are abundant in natural resources, including land, water and energy. However, in the Amu Darya Basin, there is an imbalanced use of water resources between the different economic and livelihoods needs of all basin countries.
The major characteristics of the Amu...
Kazakhstan agreed with Kyrgyzstan to supply gas for $224 per 1,000 cubic meters during the first quarter, KyrTAG quotes Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry as saying on Wednesday.
Reportedly, Kyrgyz Ambassador to Kazakhstan Esengul Omuraliyev, Chairman of the Board Bekmurat Sultanaliyev and Deputy...
A memorandum of cooperation between the Energy and Industry Ministry of Tajikistan and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was signed last Friday in Dushanbe, AsiaPlus reported on Monday.
According to the Tajik Energy and Industry Ministry, the document was...
More than 4.4 billion cubic meters of water were used for irrigation in 2012, KyrTAG reported today referring to the Kyrgyz Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation.
According to the Department of Water Resources, some 6.522 billion cubic meters of water was taken from water sources...
The Uzbek government plans to perform more than US $144m (285.6 billion UZS) of repairs on Khorezm Oblast irrigation canals starting this year with the help of the Islamic Development Bank, the Uzbekistan National News Agency said January 9. The work on almost 83km of canals will improve almost...
The U.S appreciates Turkmenistan's energy strategy and its positive initiatives on global energy security, the U.S. State Department representative for Eurasian Energy Daniel Stein said on Saturday, Turkmen Dovlet Khabarlary reported.
Stein has held a meeting in the Turkmen government....
The commissioning of the Kambarata-1 hydropower plant will create conditions for a guaranteed water supply to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, KirTAG said on Friday with reference to the press service of Electric Power Plants JSC.
'Once the plant is put into operation, conditions will be...
The 60 km long canal will be built to improve irrigation of three areas in South Kyrgyzstan, KyrTAG reports on Friday with reference to Director of Project Institute "Dalboor", Asraridin Kichibayev.
"The project is named as "Irrigation development of the Nookat and Aravan areas in Osh...
Resolution on intergovernmental CASA-1000 project will be signed in Islamabad, Ruslan Orozaliyev, Head of Project Implementation Department of Industrial Ministry of Kyrgyzstan informed of Thursday.
«Signing of the resolution on intergovernmental CASA-1000 project is planned for February-...
The newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Afghanistan Muhammad Sodiq Daudzay presented his credentials to the Foreign Ministry of Uzbekistan on Thursday, the press service of the Foreign Ministry reported on Thursday.
During the meeting, both parties discussed...
Interview by Maria Sidelnikova. Exclusively to Vestnik Kavkaza
The head of the Socio-Political Studies Center, Vladimir Yevseyev, told Vestnik Kavkaza about prospects of development of the situation in Central Asia.
- If anything scary happens in Central Asia, should Russia...
The Turkmen law on 'Hydrocarbon Resources' has been amended. According to them, permission from the appropriate authorised state bodies is required to conduct blast operations onshore, offshore, as well as on the seabed, an official Turkmen source said today.
An item in the fourth...
The Environmental Performance Review of Turkmenistan, performed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), takes stock of progress made by Turkmenistan since 2000 in 13 areas of importance to the country related to environmental policy making, implementation and financing,...
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, the five Central Asian countries that gained independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, share similar historical and cultural backgrounds.
They formed close economic relations during the Soviet period,...
Kyrgyzstan has seen the last of this winter’s planned power blackouts, the chief of one of the country’s largest electricity companies said on Friday.“If all the equipment at the Toktogul hydroelectric plant works, we do not expect power constraints,” a top-level official of the national power...
Tajikistan plans to build six small hydropower plants in 2013, Tajik Energy and Industry Ministry told Avesta.
The capacity of the future hydropower plants will hit 300 kW -1 MW per hour.
According to the source, the majority of the planned projects will be implemented in Tajik...
Export of Turkmen electricity to Afghanistan and Iran based on the results of 2012 is estimated at 2713.3 million kW/h, exceeding last year's figure by 7.5 per cent, Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported on Wednesday.
'It is expected that production of electricity will reach 19,189 kW/...
